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Its just one of those things john walking back from bpb in it heyday when it was open to 11pm and parts of the illuminations that were being assembled in darkness.If im correct it had ropelight around the bottom and possibly the top although it was only in white (technology in those days) it brought a bit of light to the prom when the illums werent on!!

Yes I'm wondering the same myself, Kevin. If anyone is likely to have one, then it is John Burke.

I'll give him a ring (but probably not at this hour! )

I should think not too - I was in the bath...

If I have then I haven't found it yet. The mermaid not the bath. There is also no mermaid in the bath (I checked under the scum...)

A sort of record - I'm only just over a month late in answering this... Those in the know will know why I've been absent. For those who don't, I've been slavishly writing a book on Blackpool which had a deadline of end of May. This will feature a bunch of old postcards - many from the collection of Chris and many more from my own collection plus modern photos taken from the same spot - or as close as I could get.

The photos and text have now gone off to the publisher and the book - to be called "Blackpool: Then and Now" (yes I know...) should be in the shops for Christmas.

There's a few Blackpool photos appearerd at my flickr account recently and if it seemed I was leaving out some obvious views then the reason is those shots were for the book!

I can now breathe a sigh of relief and carry on with projects that came to a crashing halt. Chris, the DVD of old cine films is one of those...

Cheers me dears,John

Smashing !! news , have a date for mine 1.3.12, Maybe if we swop signed books !!!

Ah! Found it! Yes, Steve at the North Pier got all excited when I told him what I was doing and said there was someone else writing a book about the pier itself. Good luck with it! Mine is also coming out from The History Press. It comes out on 1 January 2013.

I can recall that one season it was the fish restaurant and the next season it was being kitted out for mcdonalds the mermaid was gone by then, not sure if macdonalds originally put a lit sign in its place!

Ah! Found it! Yes, Steve at the North Pier got all excited when I told him what I was doing and said there was someone else writing a book about the pier itself. Good luck with it! Mine is also coming out from The History Press. It comes out on 1 January 2013.

There is a picture on the inside cover of 'From Lamp To Laser' that shows a section of the perspex cylindrical features, though it is black and white and you can't see whether they are the dolls or soldiers.

However, unlike John's still below, they are definitely split into two sections with two items inside, a piece of fibre glass round the middle of the perspex as well as at the top and bottom.